11 Tons of Cocaine Seized

**SaraJ** · 11-01-07, 04:41 PM

1st November 2007, 12:30 WST

Mexican authorities seized more than 11 tones of cocaine in the western port of Manzanillo, and said it was one of the nation’s biggest drug busts ever.

During a routine inspection, federal police and marines discovered a cargo container filled with packets of drug board the Hong Kong-flagged ship Esmeralda, which departed from Buenaventura, Coilumbia, the Mexican federal attorney general’s office said in a statement today.

Authorities were still weighing the drugs but the statement said their weight had already surpassed 11 tons, making yesterday’s seizure “one of the greatest quantities f cocaine that has been decommissioned in the history of our country,” the statement said.

On October 5, authorities said they seized about 10 tones of cocaine following a shootout in the northern city of Tampico. The street value of all the cocaine seized is somewhere over 1 billion dollars.

**smokey703** · 11-01-07, 04:49 PM

I bet there is a Columbian drug lord that is pretty pissed off right about now.

**Car 4** · 11-01-07, 05:02 PM

They better get some DEA folks to be watching that stuff.....I worked with the Mexican "Authorities" when I was in the Narcs. No one in that country can be trusted around a pile like that. Any odds that it will soon be a 5 ton seizure?

Car 4